Molecular analysis of OXA-48-Carrying conjugative IncL/M-Like plasmids in clinical isolates of klebsiella pneumoniae in Ireland

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 270-274

  Power, Karen ^a   Wang, Juan ^a   Karczmarczyk, Maria ^a   Crowley, Brendan ^b   Cotter, Meaghan ^c   Haughton, Pippa ^a   Lynch, Maureen ^c   Schaffer, Kirsten ^d   Fanning, Séamus ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; IRELAND; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; OXACILLINASE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IRELAND; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84905198585     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0022     Document Type: Article

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